landscape
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Someday, I Hope Humans Will Walk This Incredible Landscape
What an astonishing and strange place this is, this vast and fractal landscape on Mars. As Wired describes it, the rolling polar expanse seen above is actually “one of the smoothest, flattest places” on the not-so-Red Planet, a region so well-levelled and repetitive that “there are no landmarks visible”.
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Plants Engineered To Produce Insect Perfume Could Act As Pesticides
Swedish and American researchers have successfully engineered plants to produce chemical attractants like those released by insects to find mates. They say their plant factories could be used to lure and trap nuisance bugs as an environmentally friendly alternative to pesticides and synthetically produced attractants.
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Mysterious Underwater Rivers Criss-Cross The Bottom Of The Ocean
If you’ve ever made a trans-Atlantic call — or, heck, used the internet — then you might like to know a few things about the ocean floor. Mighty but enigmatic underwater rivers flow along the ocean bed. And it’s telecommunications companies, who have to lay thick cables for transoceanic phone and internet connections, with perhaps…
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Another Reason For California To Be Scared: Earthquake Storms
Worrying about the Big One is so passé. What you should really be worried about are the Big ONES. Yep: chances are, it won’t be a single large earthquake that takes California out, it will be multiple, large earthquakes. Or perhaps you’d prefer to use the official Sharknado-esque term: “earthquake storms.”